Cingular launches their first two UMTS phones
By Paul Miller 
posted Mar 6th 2006 4:52PM
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Hope this get a phone!!!
Their last accomplishment under the Cingular brand....
SCREW Cingular! I hope when they change their sorry ass name back to ATTWS then the great phone selections from ATTWS will once again be the best selections of all. Cingular SUCKS balls thru a tiny cocktail straw!
It's a cryin' shame they don't use UMTS 2100. If they did, I'd actually use their network.
Nice phone, but cingular
3. "SCREW Cingular! I hope when they change their sorry ass name back to ATTWS then the great phone selections from ATTWS will once again be the best selections of all. Cingular SUCKS balls thru a tiny cocktail straw!"
Agreed when At&t Wireless was around they had the greatest selection of phones around. I hope the new At&t wireless will continue their legacy of cool phones.
The problem is Cingular is not so much phone selection, but their lagging way behind the competition in terms of implementing 3G.
So much of the growth in the future for wireless is on the data end, and in that Cingular is lagging behind.
By the time Cingular gets its UMTS network anywhere near a nationwide coverage, Verizon will be implementing EVDO-RevA.
I sincerely hope AT&T will get Cingular more agressive in implementing the latest technologies, and get them up to speed (no pun intended) with regards to 3G rollout.
I agree with #4- I would go with Cingular if they used a 2100MHz network, or at least showed plans to do so in the future. I do not want what they currently have, I want to use my Japanese 3G phone in America on Cingular's 3G network.
I can understand what you guys are saying, sometimes it get's depressing hearing about all the new technology and good phones coming out everywhere BUT in the US. Then when it's released it's a scaled down version or stripped technology.
They may be late in the game to rollout 3g but they are making advacements very quickly with the implemetation of the first highspeed HSDPA network. For those who don't know, once umts is deployed it will rapidly upgraded to the HSDPA stadard. Read this article from lucent for more info.
http://www.lucent.com/press/0105/050104.nsa.html
WASTE O MONEY... why purchase UMTS when HSDPA is where its @?
If this handset lasts more than 2 months before it goes end-of-life I'd be shocked.
Wait till the end of the year this year or early next before adopting any Cingular 3G HSDPA technology. They need more coverage and a better selection of devices before anyone should consider adopting.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Wow, these phones look really bland. I want some qvga-ice on my ear, not econo-box phones that look a year old.
So when do we get streaming p0rn ?
And yes Cingular's phone selection is really poor.
Originally they had Semens, SE, Nokia and Moto.
But always the older models from last generation.
I really wish that in the U.S. that companies would stop trying to package cell phones with plans and gimicks. Instead adopt the Asian / European cell phone business strategy.
Cell Phone A costs X $$$
Sim Card is regargeable and plans vary.
Cell phone is unlocked and unbranded by any carriers.
The only thing good about U.S. cell phone plans are the free long distance. Other than this it's just a way to trap the consumer into using a carrier; Verizon, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, T-Mobile, Cingular/ATTWS, etc.
To comment #8.
While I agree with you about lame cell phone selection in the U.S. let's just say the Americas(both north and south plus canada).
History has shown that Europeans and Asians will spend the big money and the latest and newest cell phones. Americans will not spend the big $$$ on a cell phone. Most always go for the free one that comes with the plan, or the cheap one that offers a rebate.
How many people personally do you know that will spend $400.00 USD and up when a new cell phone comes out? Probably like 2% This is a fact.
Example: the company that I work at in the Chicago area employs aprox. 200 people. I am one of the few people who spent $450.00 on a Sony Ericsson K750i.
Everyone that sees the phone, their first impression is "wow that's a cool phone" then i show them it's 2 megapixel camera's photo capabilites, it's video recording, music playing mp3(better than iTunes - no song limit) it's bluetooth file transfering, infrared file transfer, bluetooth wireless, etc.
At this point their jaws are on the floor, .... that is until we talk price. As they drive from work in their BMW's, Audi's, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Infinity automobiles.
So case in point is imo this is a culture thing with Americans and the cell carriers know this to be true.
Working for cingular wireless i know these are all valid arguments HSPDA will make cingular the best carrier in the americas and it TRUE!!!!!!!!! People in america are so obsessed with free phones that it makes me SICK...the imagine that the phone is just made by us in the back somewhere, not manufacured by a multi-billion dollar corp separate from us.